Dear Parish Council
I am writing to you, to inform you of an exciting development we are making in how we will engage with parish councils in the future.
We recognise how important our contact with parish councils is, and the role they play in working with us to make communities a safer and better place to live. In recognition of this, we would like to invite the Chairs of each parish council to a twice-yearly meeting with senior officers from Lincolnshire Police.
There will be a meeting for the East Area of the county, covering the districts of East Lindsey, Boston and South Holland, and a meeting for the West Area covering the districts of West Lindsey, Lincoln, North Kesteven and South Kesteven.
The meetings will provide a briefing on policing activity over the previous six months, an overview of crime and anti-social behaviour statistics, and future plans. It will also be an opportunity for parishes to put questions to senior officers. The meetings will be chaired by the Area Superintendents, held online via Teams, and the first will be held in December 2023. Further details of these meetings will be sent in due course.
These new meetings with parish councils are part of the work we are doing to renew our Neighbourhood Policing model and provide alternative and varied means of engagement. I am sure you are aware of the challenges facing Lincolnshire Police and the imperative for us to use our resources as effectively as possible. We want to ensure Neighbourhood Policing Teams are as efficient as they can be in their use of time, so that we can maintain a visible presence in communities.
With the introduction of the new Question and Answer meetings later in the year, from June 2023 we will cease producing a monthly newsletter by the Neighbourhood Policing Teams. A lot of the information that was contained within these newsletters is now available on the Police.uk website, which details priorities for each area and who the team are. Here is the link to the website Home | Police.uk (www.police.uk) There is also interactive functionality meaning crime statistics can also be accessed. You can also access regular updates on what work your local officers have been doing on our social media channels, and on the Next Door app. These changes, and the removal of duplication, will enable our Neighbourhood Policing Teams to spend a greater proportion of their time out in communities which we know is important to the public.
The Neighbourhood Inspectors will continue to provide the quarterly newsletters as they do now.
I hope you can understand the changes we are making which will allow our Neighbourhood Teams to spend the most time possible visible in communities, while giving parish councils a new and more direct, two-way method of engaging with Lincolnshire Police.
Regards
Inspector 1144 Mike Head
Gainsborough Police Station
Neighbourhood Policing
01427 816300
07500920288
Michael.head@lincs.pnn.police.uk
Gainsborough Police Station
Morton Road
Gainsborough
DN21 2SY
www.lincs.police.uk